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Leap Year 2024
January 4 , 2024
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- 2024 is a leap year.
- It means this year will have 366 days instead of 365, and the February month, will have 29 days instead of 28.
- Generally, a leap year comes every four years.
- The last leap year was 2020.
- But the leap year does not come every four years, making a few years an exception.
- The Earth takes 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds to complete one revolution around the Sun.
- Thus, scholars, engaged by Roman General Julius Caesar in 46 BC, rounded the year to 365 days.
- They multiplied the remaining six hours by four to make it 24 hours (one day) and added it to every fourth year.
- Later, it was decided that the years ending with 00, which were divisible by 400, would be called leap years.
- Thus, 1900 and 2100 will not be counted as leap years, but 2000 was.
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